Richard J. Evans

Richard J. Evans is provost of Gresham College, London and Regius Professor Emeritus of History at Cambridge. His new book is The Third Reich in History and Memory.

In the LRB Archive:

• Whiter Washing: Nazi Journalists · 6 June 2019

  • Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer: From Inner Emigration to the Moral Reconstruction of West Germany by Volker Berghahn

• Nuts about the Occult: ‘Hitler’s Monsters’ · 2 August 2018

  • Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich by Eric Kurlander

• Men He Could Trust: Hitler’s Stormtroopers · 22 February 2018

  • Stormtroopers: A New History of Hitler’s Brownshirts by Daniel Siemens

• Wait and See: The French Resistance · 3 November 2016

  • The French Resistance by Olivier Wieviorka, translated by Jane Marie Todd

• Your Soft German Heart: ‘The German War’ · 14 July 2016

  • The German War: A Nation under Arms, 1939-45 by Nicholas Stargardt

• Lobbying: Hitler’s Aristocratic Go-Betweens · 17 March 2016

  • Go-Betweens for Hitler by Karina Urbach

• These people are intolerable: Hitler and Franco · 5 November 2015

  • Hitler’s Shadow Empire: Nazi Economics and the Spanish Civil War by Pierpaolo Barbieri

• Written into History: The Nazi View of History · 22 January 2015

  • A World without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide by Alon Confino
  • How Could This Happen: Explaining the Holocaust by Dan McMillan

• ‘Equality exists in Valhalla’: German Histories · 4 December 2014

  • Germany: Memories of a Nation by Neil MacGregor
  • Germany: Memories of a Nation

• The Conspiracists: The Reichstag Fire · 8 May 2014

  • Burning the Reichstag: An Investigation into the Third Reich’s Enduring Mystery by Benjamin Carter Hett

• Disorderly Cities: WW2 Town Planning · 5 December 2013

  • A Blessing in Disguise: War and Town Planning in Europe, 1940-45 edited by Jörn Düwel and Niels Gutschow

• Autoerotisch: The VW Beetle · 12 September 2013

  • The People’s Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle by Bernhard Rieger

• Marx v. The Rest: Marx in His Time · 23 May 2013

  • Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life by Jonathan Sperber

• Thank you, Dr Morell: Was Hitler ill? · 21 February 2013

  • Was Hitler Ill? by Hans-Joachim Neumann and Henrik Eberle, translated by Nick Somers

• Kisses for the Duce: Letters to Mussolini · 7 February 2013

  • Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy by Christopher Duggan
  • The Fascist Party and Popular Opinion in Mussolini’s Italy by Paul Corner

• Prophet in a Tuxedo: Walter Rathenau · 22 November 2012

  • Walther Rathenau: Weimar’s Fallen Statesman by Shulamit Volkov

• Nothing They Wouldn’t Do: Krupp · 21 June 2012

  • Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm by Harold James

• Gruesomeness is my policy: German Colonialism · 9 February 2012

  • German Colonialism: A Short History by Sebastian Conrad

• Spot and Sink: The End of WW1 · 15 December 2011

  • With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 by David Stevenson

• Into Dust: Nazis 1945 · 8 September 2011

  • The End: Hitler’s Germany 1944-45 by Ian Kershaw

• The Wonderfulness of Us: The Tory Interpretation of History · 17 March 2011

• The Scramble for Europe: German Imperialism · 3 February 2011

  • Nazi Empire: German Colonialism and Imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler by Shelley Baranowski

• Who remembers the Poles?: Between Hitler and Stalin · 4 November 2010

  • Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

• Cite ourselves!: The Annales School · 3 December 2009

  • The Annales School: An Intellectual History by André Burguière, translated by Jane Marie Todd

• Let’s Learn from the English: The Nazi Empire · 25 September 2008

  • Hitler’s Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe by Mark Mazower

• A Most Irksome Matter: Murder in 18th-century Hamburg · 6 July 2006

  • Liaisons Dangereuses: Sex, Law and Diplomacy in the Age of Frederick the Great by Mary Lindemann

• Weimarama · 8 November 1990

  • Male Fantasies Vol. I: Women, Floods, Bodies, History by Klaus Theweleit, translated by Chris Turner, Erica Carter and Stephen Conway
  • Male Fantasies Vol. II: Male Bodies: Psychoanalysing the White Terror by Klaus Theweleit, translated by Chris Turner, Erica Carter and Stephen Conway

• One nation, two states · 21 December 1989

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